Soil litter dynamics and N use in a leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala lam. (De Witt)) alley cropping system in southwestern Nigeria

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 739-749

  Vanlauwe, B ^a,b   Swift, M J ^c   Merckx, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Carolyn House ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Programme TSBF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA;

ALLEY CROPPING; FALLOW; LEUCAENA; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; TROPICAL SOIL;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0030474607     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0038-0717(95)00187-5     Document Type: Article

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